Black and white photograph, partially blurred, of eight men posing in a group underneath a tipple at Big Oak Coal Mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. They are standing next to a truck owned by Lawson Coal Company. Another truck in the background...

Black and white photograph of nine men standing in front of a tipple at Big Oak Coal Mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. One man is perched on top of a wooden beam. Two trucks from the era, one from Lawson Coal, can be seen on the right side of...

Color photograph showing a chart with information on coal mines in the Clinton area. Information given on the chart includes the mine name by alphabetical order, the type of coal mined, the method of mining, roof lithology, thickness of the coal...

Color photograph showing a chart with information on coal mines in the Clinton area. Information given by the chart includes the mine name by alphabetical order, the type of coal mined, the method of mining, roof lithology, thickness of the coal...

Color photograph showing a chart which gives information on coal mines in the Clinton area. Information given by the chart includes the mine name by alphabetical order, the type of coal mined, the method of mining, roof lithology, thickness of the...

Dr. James B. Maple was a local doctor and historian who in his spare time researched early Vincennes and Sullivan newspapers for items concerning Sullivan Co. He clipped items and took notes and filled 42 volumes of scrapbooks which have a...

Black and white photograph showing a tipple at one of the Bunsen coal mines near Universal, Indiana. In this photograph, coal cars loaded with coal sit underneath the tipple with mine workers posing next to each car. Each coal car holds coal of a...

Black and white photograph of three men and two trucks underneath a tipple at Big Oak Coal Mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. Two men are standing on the truck, and one man is posing in between the trucks.

Black and white photograph of four male miners drinking at the same time in front of a building and equipment at Big Oak Coal Mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. A truck with an empty bed is behind them.

Black and white photograph which shows the tipple and a line of empty coal cars at the Miami mine #10 in Vigo County, Indiana. The Miami #10 was owned by Miami Coal Company. The coal cars belong to Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad (C & EI...

Coal Age Catechism is a compilation of material in a question and answer format that originally appeared in the journal Coal Age. James T. Beard collected the material for the third edition published in 1923. Blank pages were omitted in the...

Black and white photograph of a tipple at Big Oak Coal Mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. A mine cart is moving up a railway on the left of the photograph, and in bottom center a man stands at the end of a truck bed. The truck is partially...

Black and white photograph of a tipple at Big Oak Coal Mine in Vermillion County, Indiana. A mine cart is moving up a railway on the left of the photograph, and in bottom center a man stands at the end of a truck bed. The truck is partially...